Lauro Lines 'King of Naples'

摘要

Among the large number of Mediterranean-based shipping companies that have vanished over the past several decades is Lauro Lines, or Flotta Lauro, most famous for its flagship, the blue-hulled passenger liner Achille Lauro, highjacked by terrorists in 1985 and later lost by fire off the Horn of Africa in 1994. Founded by Cavaliere del Lavoro Achille Lauro in 1923 around an old American cargo ship purchased at auction, Lauro Lines became a force in the post-war migrant trades when it began to fit a number of its cargo vessels with rudimentary passenger accommodation.